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Vol. XiX, No. 5 DOCKETTHE VILLANOVA SCHOOL OF LAW February, 1983 College Work Study Money Deadline Nears By Susan Escott Who are the potential employers? Therie's more to financial aid than The range of possible CWS employers is simply receiving grants or loans. You can vast since a student's CWS award may be earn money and valuable work experience applied to a wide range of non-profit organi in the College Work Study (C WS) Program. zations and government jobs. According to In fact, jobs which might normally call for Mannix, "VLS prides itself on giving valua academic excellence or a network of con ble work experience to its law students." tacts can be obtained with relative ease if a There is a target listing of organizations student qualifies for CWS funding through and agencies that CWS students may con the federal government. tact for employment, but a student is not Who qualifies? limited to this listing. He or she may also To qualify for CWS funding, a student elect to submit an organization's name to must merely demonstrate financial need; the financial aid office for certification; the there is no requirement of academic excel organization need only be non-profit and BALSA members Karen Spencer Kelly and James Davis. lence, according to Sandy Mannix, Director of VLS Financial Aid Office. Mannix sug gested that a good indication of demon strated need is that a student has qualified Heritage Celebration for a full $5,000.00 Guaranteed State Loan (GSL). Lift every voice and sing, sponded as follows: In my continuing effort Although the fact that a student has re Till earth and heaven rings, to acquire an education which will enable ceived such a loan is a good indication of Rings with the harmony of liberty. me to make a worthwhile personal and pro financial need, it does not guarantee a CWS Let us rejoicing rise. fessional contribution to the community at award. It is possible to be needy and not Up to the highest skies. large, I decided to pursue a legal education. receive a CWS award Mannix explained, Let us march on Black history plays an essential role in since federal funds are limited. 'Til victory is won. my everyday existence. African people in How do you file for a CWS? America must be educated for a purpose: An interested student must file the ap Sing a song, the advancement of our race in a racist propriate financial aid forms available at Full of the faith that the dark past has society. We must never forget the tragic Kennedy Hall, showing that he or she is Sandy Mannix taught us. cries of slavery that echo loudly in today's interested in receiving CWS funding. willing to hire the student on CWS terms. Sing a song. society. We must be aware of the sacrifices These must be filed in complete form by Full of the hope that the present has March 15,1983 for the summer of 1983and This usually is not a barrier, but a stepping that have been made to survive in a country stone to employment. Under CWS, the gov brought us. that justified legal discrimination, based the 1983-84 academic year. Any student — Black National Anthem — who does not meet that deadline will not be ernment pays 80% of the student's salary solely on the matter of one's color. which is a real drawing card in an other- James Welden Johnson There is not enough time, nor enough considered for CWS funds until all other .7 - 'i------• ------. uany'mfeahs'Delng put on" ^ wainng usi February is Black history month. in general has played m my decision to Mannix warned, stressing the importance Members of V.U.'s BALSA would like to pursue a legal education. However, I can of filing on time. Unpleasant express how Black history influenced their think of a few motivating forces off the top Susan Levin, Coordinator for the Villan- decision to pursue a legal alucation and how of my head: ova University CWS program a^eed that Points they plan to contribute to the underlying Frederick Douglass, Esq., Jacob Law meeting the deadline is crucial. Students principles of the Black struggle in their pros rence, Venture Smith, Olavdah Equiano, on the waiting list will be awarded funds by Karl Scheuermann pective legal careers. Although there is great Absalom Jones, Richard Allen, Jacob Ni only if funding is available. Being on the and Gina Vogel diversity among the members' individual cholson, Jupiter Nicholson,Job Albert, Tho waiting list does not guarantee that stu (First of a two-part report) personalities, there is strong solidarity in mas Prictchet, Nat Turner, James W.C. dents will be awarded CWS funds," she Have you ever taken a trip down the Del the sharing of principles. (Continued on page 5) added. aware River in an inner tube with your feet G. Elaine Smith, a 2nd year student re hanging over the side, floating from the sponded as follows: "Although the speeches Upper Black Eddy down to Point Pleasant? and the marches have been responsible for If you have, then the recent controversy focusing attention on the needs and strug Head Hunting Goes On surrounding the Point Pleasant water div gles of Black Americans, it has been, and I ersion project may be of interest. Environ By MARIA VENTRESCA tioners and one judge has been considered believe will continue to be the NAACP for the position. While the committee has mentalists, engineers, and even law Legal Defense Fund, ACLU and other legal The process of selecting the new Dean students have focused their attention on for Villanova Law School appears to be been concentrating on evaluating persons advocates who have made the civil rights outside of Villanova Law School, it is still the once-quiet area of historic Bucks moving at a slow but steady pace. The first County. gains legal and lasting. There is a direct stage of this selection process started in the possible that a member of the Law School's need for more and more effective Black faculty will be selected. After the list of The Point Pleasant project will not only fall when the Faculty Screening Commit pump water to the Limerick Nuclear Power Lawyers in all areas of the law. tee began its efforts to communicate the nominees is narrowed down, this smaller I am specifically interested in the areet of group of nominees will be compared with Plant now under construction, but will also availibility of the position to all of those divert 95 million gallons per day (mgd) to labor law. There are a large number of who may be interested and who are quali those on the faculty who have been consi Black laborers but few Black labor lawyers. dered before a final decision is made. the Bradshaw reservoir in Bucks County, The handwriting on the present political fied for the position. two and a half miles away. From there, the walls indicates that labor gains for Black Steps taken by the committee to adver The next stage in the selection process, Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) and other minorities are becoming more tise the position of Dean included placing which should begin in about a month, will will pump 46 mgd into the Perkiomen difficult to obtain and to retain. I hope to be advertisements in journals such as the be to narrow down the list of persons to be Creek. The water will flow down the creek one of those on the inside of the legal pro American Bar Association Journal, writing seriously considered and to hand this list into a PECO pumping station which will cess helping to facilitate these matters." to the Dean of each law school in the coun over to the University Committee. The Uni pump the water as needed into the cooling try requesting that he or she inform the versity Committee is headed by Father James Davis, Co-chairman of BALSA, re towers of the Limerick plant. school's faculty members of the position, Rice, but not all of the other members have The other 49 mgd will be used by the and writing to the Board of Legal Consul been selected yet. Professor Dowd assumes Neshaminy Water Resources Authority tants and asking for suggestions of possible that one of the members on the Committee (NWRA) to service nearby Bucks and Mont nominees. The outcome of these steps is a will be a law student since there was a gomery County communities. Their water list of 35 to 40 nominees who are presently student on the last University Committee will be pumped into the Neshaminy Creek being considered for the position. which selected a Dean for the law school. to the Lake Galena and Pine Run reser- Members of the faculty committee have The University Committee will conduct its viors, and from there into the North met with some of the individuals on the list own evaluations and. a final screening Branch Water Treatment Plant. at the Law School, and have recently met which will include interviews with faculty How much is 95 mgd? "Not a significant with about 10 nominees at an American members and perhaps with students as amount," according to David Brooman, an Law School Association Conference which well. attorney for the NWRA and a Villanova took place in Cleveland during the first According to Professor Dowd, a new graduate. "Most of the water diverted even week of January. There are individuals on tually returns to the Delaware, resulting in the list who have not been interviewed and Dean may be selected by June. However, if it is necessary, the selection process will very little actual consumptive loss," Broo-- may not be interviewed because they are man asserts. not being seriously considered. continue past June. Dean O'Brien niay stay on a month or two longer than he originally Why pump any water from the Dela Professor Dowd, Chairman of the Fa ware River? The Limerick Nuclear Plant is culty Committee, states that he is very planned. As Professor Dowd pointed out, this pro located on the Schuylkill River, but temper pleased with the amount of interest that ature restrictions placed on Schuylkill has been shown in the position. He believes cess of selecting a Dean is fairly new to Villanova University as the law school has water make it cost efficient to pump water that the favorable response to Villanova's directly from the Delaware. The 49 mgd search for a Dean is especially significant had only two Deans in its history. Dean Reuschlein served for 20 years and Dean pumped from Point Pleasant will serve as in view of the fact that about a quarter of both a primary and secondary water the country's law schools are presently O'Brien has served for 11. Many law schools offer a Dean only a limited term of source, according to Brooman. Limerick looking for a new Dean and as a result the will draw on the water diverted into the market for qualified persons is rather tight. about 5 years. This idea has been discussed at Villanova though it has not been Perkiomen Creek for its cooling towers, Most of the nominees on the list are aca (Continued on page 4) demics. Only a few on the list are practi- seriously considered. Page 2 « DOCKET • February, 1983 The Ways and Means of Committees
What is the Long Range Planning Com were appointed to open spots. mittee? Who is on it? What does it do? When There is nothing in the SBA constitution (if ever) has it, or will it meet? concerning student elections, according to — Member of the Ernest Hart, but it is unofficial policy that The EDITORIAL committee members be elected at the same L.R.P.C. since 1980 time as the October elections for first year The above-quoted plaintive cry by a com SBA representatives. He is presently draft mitteeman is indicative of a number of the ing a proposed set of guidelines to ensure empty shells that dot the landscape of the that elections will be held at the requisite Financial Penalties Villanova Law School committee system. time next year. However, even he wonders students received their checks at 4 To be fair, several of the eight committees whether students should be elected to serve With financial aid deadlines which students are on do exhibit signs of in largely ceremonial capacities. creeping up, the problem of bureau p.m. on December 15. life, in particular the Placement Committee Not only are many committees inactive, cracy at the Bursar's Offce conies These and other less affluent and Curriculum Committee. However, but even those who are actually doing to mind. A recurring example of students were subject to the Uni enough carcasses exist that one wonders something do not see fit to publish minutes this bureaucracy is the Universi versity penalties for failure to pay whether a thorough overhaul of the system to inform the student body about their tuition on time. Some had to pay a is not necessary. The Financial Aid Policy activities. In this respect, they do not differ ty's failure to consider the stu Committee has not met in over two years, too much from their mother organization, dents' need for a flexible tuition $25.00 late fee, and some returned the Admissions Policy Committee and the the SBA which at last look had the minutes deadline. A tuition deadline cer early from Christmas break to be Long Range Planning Committee have not from the October 17th meeting posted. tainly serves the University's allowed a deferment of their tuition met in over two and a half years, and the (Actually there were no minutes posted budgetary goals and makes their payment. Others paid the tuition Grading and Examination Committee has when this date was being double checked.) on time and borrowed money to live met only once in a year and a half. Both Students are on only eight of the sixteen financial operations more efficient. members of the Faculty Student Commit committees set up by the faculty. The However, expediency cannot jus on, or managed to live without tee did not respond to the Docket survey effectiveness of faculty committee without tify the unnecessary burden the money, while waiting for the and one can only wonder whether this com student representation is not known at this University places on the students bank's disbursement. mittee has not been superceded by the new time. The need for sunset laws seems to be requiring financial aid. These University penalties place Student Faculty Committee which is com an unnecessary financial hardship posed of all heads of student organizations. fairly persuasive in view of the dormant A case on point is the December Committees obviously do not play a very nature of many of these committees. The 15, 1982, deadline for law school on the students who are the least big role in the governance or guidance of opposite, the need for sunshine laws, how tuition payment. Using a standard able to carry this burden. The Uni the Law School. This fact, in and of itself, ever, does not appear to have infected the versity is in a much better financial may explain the malaise that seems to per students at the Villanova Law School. At procedure, most banks made their the Student Faculty Committee meeting second disbursement of student position than the students to float meate the committee system. Another con funds during these periods. Why tributing factor, though, stems from the held in early December (attended by barely loans late in December of 1982 or in fact that elections for the various commit half of the student body heads and only one January of 1983. One bank guaran not tie tuition deadlines to loan dis tees were never held this school year. of the four professors) the students them teed disbursement by the De bursements? According to Ernie Hart, Commissioner of selves were able to vote down a proposal to cember 15 deadline. The bank Elections for the SBA, he was not notified have a student observer at faculty meet that elections were needed and therefore ings. One begins to understand the "performed" on its guarantee and nothing was done to fill the posts vacated vibrancy of the VLS committee system by graduating students. This of course, after such an acute insight into student William Butler Yeats once com are all Eddy trademarks. But does not even touch on the problem of those interests. beyond these touches of flair, The students merely elected for a year. Only in What is the solution? Clearly, if past plained that newspapers take the trends and sage thinking is any sort of imagination out of the world. Alas, Docket has become a stronger and December was this oversight discovered better paper under Dave's lead and rather than going through the cumber guide, we should appoint a committee to the great poet never got to read The some election process, various students investigate the committees. Docket under the editorship of ership. We who inherit your blue Dave Eddy. Double entendre head pencil with this issue say thanks, clearly. too afraid to think seriously of not going on. lines, colorful editorials and occa Dave. And we promise to keep im The preceding should not leave the im The real pity of it is that for a profession proving. pression that law school has not altered the that rightly prides itself on the aptitude sionally nonsensical photo captions way in which I perceive and deal with prob and confidence of the advocates it pro lems. In fact, if there is one thing that has duces, the level of fear law school engend ers and professors condone and manipulate changed my thinking process more than uuiiiiui uuL uL 111 buiiw way of an inordinately large quantity of fear. productive to an individual's thinking pro Dear Editor:, will dry up. Before law school I never fully appreciated cesses and sense of humanity. I would like to comment upon the editor "The Department of Labor each year es fear, now not only do I view legal issues In the end, the law student goes on des ial in the last issue of The Docket. The timates that about 27,000 legal job open through a prism of apprehension but I hve pite the obstacles and becomes adept at sur editorial, entitled "Professional Responsi ings will await this year's 34,000 in fear. Whether it is the low level fear viving, perhaps the most important lesson bility," referred to a statement on an even law-school graduates, and that during the professors emit and feed off of in the class that can be taken away from law school. ing news program that "the number of next few years the annual number of jobs room or the intense soul renting fear that Thus, the whole legal ^ucational process attorneys being graduated from our na will not increase. Skeptics will correctly visits most law students twice a year, it is seems to come down to a matter not of tion's law schools vastly exceeds the point out that the Department of Labor has so palpable that it is no exaggeration to say winning, nor losing, nor even how the game number of jobs created in the market." It for over a decade consistently underesti that Fear is very much at home at law is played, but simply that the game is noted further that "law schools continue to mated the number of legal jobs available, school. played and we are still standing on the field expand" and attributed the "vast gulf" be but it would be imprudent to forget that Fear is a terrible and awesome thing be when the clock runs out, ready to enter the tween the number of law school graduates prior to 1965 the profession had never ab cause it touches all of us at least once in our profession and begin the game in earnest. and the number of jobs to the fact, accord sorbed as many as 14,000 lawyers in a sin- lives and, hence, is truly one of the few Dum Spriro, Spero ing to the editorial, that "[l]aw schools. . . (Continued on page 3) Great Democrats. However, fear does give (Editor: The preceding article was origi are veritable money-making factories for its recipients an ironic solace. In my own nally submitted to the Edgar Allen Poe- universities." Finally, the editorial re case, having directed every activity for the Pontius Pilot Law School Invitational ferred to the "avarice of the legal profes Dear. Editor: last fifteen years to the idea of becoming an Essay Competition and is re-printed in full sion," and decried the "unregulated As a third year law student entering my attorney and practicing law, I am simply with the permission of the author.) propagation of lawyers in a society which final semester, I though it might be approp cannot support but a fraction of them with riate to take stock of what I have actually meaningful and fulfilling legal positions." learned in almost three years of law school. I think that the editorial is probably a Half a lifetime ago, one of my instructors THE strong statement of feelings shared by made a remark to the effect that perhaps as many who are presently in law school. In much as 80 percent of all that we learn raising questions about some thoughts in through formal education passes com DOCKET the editorial, I do not want to suggest that I pletely from conscious memory a few years am unsympathetic to those who are expe after it is acquired but, if we have been riencing acute frustration and anxiety in trained properly, as memory recedes we Editor-in-Chief trying to find "meaningful and fulfilling should be left with the ability to think Mary Porter legal positions." However, I have a few clearly, having at one time dealt with such facts and thoughts I would like to put be a wide range of information. Associate Editors fore you. And I hope that someone (perhaps As for the first point, I can certainly at James Watkins The Docket or the SBA) might establish a test to the fact that I have already forgotten Tom Thornton forum in which there could be open discus 80, if not 90, per cent of the raw legal data I I sion of how to deal with the perceived "glut have tried to assimilate (i.e., crammed into Editor Emeritus of lawyers." Copy Editor my head). Between the information that Dave Eddy Marc Arrigo With respect to the extent of the "glut" has passed irretrievably from memory and and the expansion of law schools, I would the material that never was learned in the like to quote a few paragraphs from an arti Editorial Consultant Assistant Piiotographer first place, one can only have a deep, abid Tony Green cle in a recent issue of the Journal of ing sense of gratitude for bar review Eric Freed Legal Education: courses. "Professor Vaughn Ball has predicted The second prong of the revelation I re Business IManager Photographer's Assistants that the number of law-school graduates ceived in those halcyon days of my youth is Kevin Peck Julius Lang will grow from approximately 518,000 in carried a step further in law school. Not Mary Young Kirk Karagelian 1980 to approximately 610,000 in 1984, and only is one supposed to learn something to 750,000 by the end of the decade. It is about the law but also is expected to emerge Sports Editor Faculty Advisor possible to quibble with the assumptions from law school "thinking like a lawyer!" Tom Thornton Prof. John Cannon upon which his predictions are based, but Whether and to what extent legal thinking the accelerated ^owth of the profession is has any relationship to thinking logically, Staff: obvious. The size of the profession in analytically and, most significantly, Sheldon Bass, M. Th. Bourque, Bill Brown, Patti Brennan, Colette creased from 304,938 in 1980 to 535,000 in clearly, is something I cannot say at this Buchanan, Walter Champion, Sue Escott, Mike Gallagher, Keith 1984. Despite such phenomenal growth, a point. From the little I have seen of the Kirsh, Mary Ann Knight, Chip Lamason, Michelle Monaco, Teresa recent survey reveals that 95 percent of profession, in these hallowed halls of aca Nazario, Karl Scheuermann, G. Elaine Smith, Kathy Tana, Maria 1979 law school graduates from ABA- deme and elsewhere, I am left with the Ventresca, Gina Vogel, Andy Zeldin approved schools found law-related jobs suspicion that "thinking like a lawyer" Foreign Desk: Anna Arakelian, Bruce Babij, Sean Abdul O'Grady within nine months of graduation. No one may very well represent a step backward in really knows when, if ever, the job market the process of learning how to think February, 1983 » DOCKET » Page 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (Continued from page 2) GREEN ACRES gle year, while in the decade of the job situation but, if full disclosure is made, why is that not enough? A Monthly Column by Tony Green seventies the average increase exceeded 30,000 a year. The editorial concludes by saying that "Equally decisive to applicants may be society can provide only a fraction of law Publicity Hounds VLS the general impression of joblessness, re- schwl graduates with "meaningful and As you might know, there's a big push on fulfilling legal positions." I understand T what's today. gardless of the reality. For almost a decade right now to get Villanova and the Law Jobs. So let s do Paper Chase IL They been predicting or describing that the writer is saying that it is not School some good publicity. Good publicity enough for there to be jobs — the jobs transfer Houseman to Villanova to head a lawyer glut," with headlines such as attracts more students. More students the placement office. Let's face it, he can't Many New Lawyers Find Practice is Li should be "meaningful and fulfilling." I as means more money. And what else is there? sume that everyone wants a job that is get pregnant. And he helps the kids who are mited to Looking for Work'." While the campaign has not been offi now 3Ls get jobs, unsuccessfully of course. meaningful and fulfilling." But what do cially announced, the signs are every Pye, Legal Education Past and Fu Prof.. How about a movie based on my ture: A Summer Carol, 32 J. of Legal these terms mean to the typical law stu where: Dean O'Brien stars on TV spots. dent? Do many law students believe that debtor-creditor book: Going Bust. If that's Educ. 367, 370-371 (September, 1982). The school is pushing prominent or unus not relevant, I don't know what is. only the $40,000+ positions in large law ual students on reporters for profile mate I do not have figures with respect to the B.M.: Let's get one thing straight: I don't extent that law schools are money-makers firms can be "meaningful and fulfilling?" rial. Professors are being convinced to Do law school faculty and administrators do downers. That's a down. We need to sell for universities. It is probably true, how write articles for local legal journals. the school, not give it away. ever, that few, if any, law schools are convey this impression? If some of us do, In that regard, the Docket's crack then I believe that we are contributing to Prof.: I could do another nutshell. Say money-losers. It is also undoubtedly true investigative team has obtained, from a Sex Crimes in a NutsheU. the frustration and anxiety of those seek confidential source, the transcript of a tape that some universities take a substantial B.M.: We re talking desperation city ing legal positions. And, more importantly, recording of a meeting where the PR cam amount of law school income (derived in here. I anticipated this. So let's talk fiction. large measure from law students' tuition) we are presenting a false picture of reality.' paign was discussed with some members of Large firm practice has its financial re We re going to have to deal with this situa and apply it to support non-law school ac the faculty. According to sources, the meet tion like its a product, like an uncomforta- tivities. From my knowledge of Villanova wards and it can be fulfilling. But it also ing was honchoed by one Biff Morgenstern has its share of drudgery. Moreover, large ble product, Midol or Perparation H or Law School's budget, I believe that a rela of the Los Angeles P.R. firm of Morgen Maalox. We're gonna have to go compara tively low percentage of the Law School's firm practice often does not provide the stern, Morgenstern Morgenstern and opportunity to deal with real people, an tive advertising. With the other schools, income goes to the University. And with 0 Neill. Morgenstern has a creditable ser l^ike: At the University of Pennsylvania opportunity that is more readily available ies of past clients under his belt. In the past, respect to that percentage, it must be re pu have to work 120 hours a week and lose in small firms or in non-legal positions. I Morgenstern has worked for the gorilla in membered that the University does have a \Ai hair to make law review. At fair claim to compensation for "overhead" think that dealing with people problems the DeLaurentis version of "King Kong," can be as "meaningful and fulfilling" as Villanova, you just have to make 10 free expenditures attributable to the Law the shark in Jaws," former Senator Sam throws and get one C+." The visual is a School (e.g., heat, airconditioning, finan most forms of large firm practice. Hayakawa, Jim Watt, the National Football rugby game. cial services, etc.). Finally, is it possible that many law stu ^ague and midget actor Gary Coleman. Prof.: But. . . dents limit their employment search to rel Biff Morgenstern, needless to say, is the big But the fact remains that law schools B.M.; "At Penn, the xerox machines cost atively high-paying jobs because trailing time, earns big money and gives a good are profitable. And the question is whether , 3 copy. At Villanova, the machines are universities should forego or limit law behind many law students is a long train of meeting. (Note: The transcript did not debt? If this is so, what can be done to only 5C. Comparative advertising is defi school profits by regulating the "propaga reveal the names of the professors speak nitely the route we have to take this. eliminate, or at least minimize, this incen ing.) Here are the highlights: tion of lawyers" when there is, at the least, - ' there's the Lanham Act, the a perception that there is a gulf between the tive for students to narrowly define what B.M.; Now listen kids, the first thing we r.1.C.. . . number of law school graduates and the constitutes a "meaningful and fulfilling" gotta do here is key on what we've got to legal position? sell here, what's marketable. Prof.: I love it. Biff. Let's do it. But it number of available legal jobs. sounds expensive. What will it cost? If there is "avarice" involved in the fail In sum, my points are few and perhaps Prof.: Well, listen, Mr. Morgenstern . not very profound. I think that Professor B.M.: I would say this is going to cost, uh, ure to regulate law school admissions, I B.M.: Hey, get outta here. It's Biff. a million dollars over the next, uh two think it should be clear that it is not the Pye's figures suggest that the gulf between Prof.: Sorry, uhhh. Biff. I have this great years. law student applicants and available jobs is article I'm writing on the Rule in Shelley's legal profession," by which I mean the Prof.: We, uh, could, uh, do that. not as wide as generally perceived. Yet Case. I call it, "The Rule in Shelley's Case: practicing bar, has little to gain, and much Follow up: Last month, this column to lose by an increase in the number of there is a perception that "meaningful and A Real Catch 21." fulfilling" legal jobs are hard to find. And focused on the precocity and pre- lawyers. I am certain that the practicing B.M.. Look, now don't get me wrong, such jobs are hard to find if one adopts a sumptuousness of the the ILs. That situa bar would enthusiastically support the im- here. But Shelly's been overdone. Shelly tion was resolved on January 25. Grades fwsition of a quota on future law school narrow definition of what is "meaningful Winters. Look, I love her. I had lunch last were issued. admissions. Is this the kind of "regulation" and fulfilling." Law school faculty may be week with her and her agent, Blinky. When that the editorial had in mind? Is this kind contributing to such a narrow definition. I she died in "The Posiedon Adventure" I also resist the notion that law schools cried for a week. of regulation fair to the iillilL lAl VAlXiCl cU ''I'SaYs Th^lastTime"youVe going to hear though fully aware that the job situation protect the economic position of those who the media. Look at the Rule against Perpe tuities in "Body Heat." No. We need meat. Tony Green make pun with Wilson for lawyers is tight, nevertheless wants to have already graduated. Goode's name. Goode is Bill Green's former go to law school? Perhaps that student As I said before, I appreciate the frustra We need something with sex appeal. Prof.: How about a program or a film Philadelphia Managing Director who is wants a legal education but has no desire to tion and anxiety of those seeking legal em running in the Democratic primary against practice law. Certainly, law schools should ployment. One need not be terribly about the law and the draft movement. We could criticize Reagan and everything. It'd Frank L. Rizzo. Green reports that the not make false representations about the sensitive to realize that thoughts about fu Goode campaign is looking for willing ture employment have an understandable, be great. B.M.: This is 1983, pal. We're talking volunteers for the effort to halt Big Frank's Reimel Quarter Finals but almost obsessive, hold upon the minds return to City Hall. Anyone interested of many law students. I would welcome the Jane Fonda in exercise videotapes, not Crosby, Stills & Nash at Woodstock. Let's should contact Green with a note on the The quarter final round of the Reimel opportunity to discuss the issues I have bulletin board or at his locker. (Number 25.) Moot Court Competition was held on Feb raised, or related issues, with anyone who talk today. ruary 1, 1983. The following teams won is interested. their arguments: Collins J. Seitz, Jr. and John M. Hyson Mark T. Mullen; William Dienna and Mary Professor of Law for zxxi. a.n
Of White Collar Crime and Charlie Allen
Interview with J. Clayton Undercofler (Part II)
family it was. He had ties to the so-called been only a short time ago I left the govern by Beth Wolffe cause you are in the process of finding in ment and I knew them. They knew I formation that may help them make more Provensano family in New Jersey. He was living in South Jersey and he had a lot of wouldn't blab to South Philadelphia or Q. I would like you to answer this question objective decisions. It also helps in counsel Bruno. They asked me to negotiate a deal ing clients who are under invetigation and connections with Philadelphia's Bruno from two perspectives: first as a lawyer family. He had been connected with them and give him counsel. practicing in the field and second, as a citi suffering anxiety. They have a compulsive need for information and it is generally from an early age. He was related toBlinky Q. The deal that you struck — zen who is knowledgeable because of his A. The deal was in two stages. Negotiating very sparse in the investigative stage. On Palermo and had been very aggressive and professional background. What do you see good with his fists. So he was involved in a plea agreement which took weeks having as the appropriate thrust for federal law the other hand, Don Goldberg who is a most successful defense lawyer and considered to meet with the Strike ForcQ in Washing enforcement in this area? number one, did not have that background. Very few criminal defendants ton, D.C. A. Well, this is federal law enforcement. Q. What did they want? How much time He started out in practice with another de You have to recognize that your resources of any substance want you did they want Charlie to serve? fense lawyer and learned that way. are limited. You are not in a position where to learn on their case. A. They didn't say what they wanted him you can go into all 10 counties and really The important thing in criminal law is for you to be a defense lawyer before you to serve. They wanted a plea agreement clean them up. That's a job for the district with a ceiling — with a cap and they can develop any kind of practice. You have illegal prize fights that bet on these kids to attorneys and there has to be a good rela see who could knock the other kid out and wanted one count under the RICO statute tionship between federal and local law en to be a trial lawyer — that's where it al ways ends up. The question is how are you he grew up in that kind of atmosphere. He and they wanted the maximum of 20 years forcement. Then you have to look at what went into the service and became a fighter, cap. The judge could set anything under it. you do best. What you do best is that you going to get your reputation or how are you going to learn? Very few criminal defend went to Korea where he had been shot, and Given his age, and risking his life every move over county lines and state lines, and day, and what he would accept, 20 years ants of any substance want you to learn on had shot a lot of people, as a soldier. He had you have as a tool the grand jury system was not in the ball park. So we discussed their case. They want you to get them off been a bank robber and spent a lot of time in which is very flexible and jxiwerful. And jail. His last stretch, he spent time with that. We ultimately arrived at seven years you have agencies that are very skilled and, and the way they do is check your track record; so you have to get your experience Jimmy Hoffa and they became close as a cap. indeed, better trained and better equipped friends. He would be called upon to per Q. What you got was seven years proba than local law enforcement agencies. So, somewhere else. The best place is in a go vernment agency where the client is the suade people, he was used as a bodyguard tion. No time was served. white collar crime becomes a natural be A. The maximum probation is five years. government and they understand. They and he had a reputation as being very fero cause you have the ability to gather the That was years later. We made a deal in are paying you less money and expect you cious and fearless. So people felt that if documents to reach out to whatever part of Allen was with you it was a measure of 1978, early '79, and he wasn't sentenced the country that a major fraud might be to learn on the job. You can do that in the Defender's Association, The U.S. Attor your importance, but if you wanted to start until last March. located or portions of those people that are a fight with him you would have to kill him. Q. The stories that he doesn't know truth involved can be located. And you can prose ney's Office, the D.A.'s office, or anything to get you into court and familiarize you He was an arsonist, manufactured meth, from fiction and wild stories about assassi cute it. I think it should be and it is a visual and was generally involved in the life of nating Frank Fitzsimmons had Jimmy prosecution and it has to have a high deter organized crime. His associations were at Hoffa lived aren't fabrications? They are rent value. Because you find that if you get the top. After talking to him about it, you true? involved in fraud and the like, there are so learn everything you ever heard was true: A. No agent that I have dealt with has ever many that you don't have the ability to do the family structure, the general organiza suggested that he was lying about any them all. It becomes very frustrating, but I tion and existence of organized crime. thing. I know about the Fitzsimmons story, think you have to continue that effort. Q. So when he was flipped by Agent Handy and I think his story is that the contract Q. But if it is true that there are so many of the FBI for running the meth lab, the went out but Provensano was told that and you don't have the ability to do them Strike Force needed an attorney for him Hoffa disappeared. I think Hoffa ordered all, what is the actual deterrent value aside who was so good that no one could ever say the contract. Certainly we can't go to Hoffa from the psychological boost that the guys that Charlie Allen was given a raw deal or to check that story. get in the office from telling themselves that the deal you would cook for him could that there is a good deterrent value? not go sour for him? He was an arsonist, manu A. I don't know. You just have to. You A. That's not quite true and I don't mean factured meth, and was would have to take a poll of defrauders and to challenge what you say, but let me ex generally involved in organi find out what their response is to seeing plain how it developed. He had an attorney someone going to jail. I think if you talk to a in New Jersey when he flipped and at the zed crime. lot of investigators today they would tell time he signed the standard FBI warning & you that since the great famous notorious nrnnrnii fnrmn rfjnrinijinntnrinn fn nnimnni nwn fj. nil! h>i I all )»g» whew Jimmy Hoffa is? lui iiuiuui lu yiuve irie cay'e!! because when waived even advismg his New Jersey at A. Yes he did. He made some suggestion with the system. Without that it will be torney of what he was doing. So no one the money is paid, it is done very carefully. remarkable for you to move into criminal that he was off the coast of Florida with the Probably, knowing human nature, it knew what was happening. Allen began to body dismembered, or something like that, law and develop into a major practitioner. cooperate with the government by going to doesn't stop it that much. I think the Q. Has crime become so sophisticated that, to easily decompose in sea water. You can answer is that you don't know how much it different meetings wearing recording devi only go on what you feel. I have been as lawyers, must we become more sophisti ces. If he was found with these devices, he does deter. Law enforcement has no other cated and computer competent also? around some people that I have prosecuted approach. would never come out. He was being de A. I don't think so; I never had one of those and they scared the hell out of me. briefed extensively by agents and as he was I prosecuted a bank robber who had shot Q. If the U.S. Attorney's Office were to cases. What I like about litigation is that talking, the agents started to get the feeling shift its concentration toward narcotics some people and I looked at him and got cold when you move from one case to another that there was a lot more information they and finding the money that runs narcotics, all over because you knew that he would you usually end up in a differnt factual had not uncovered which might relate to would you be more pleased as a citizen, or setting and you have to learn something kill you if someone put a gun in his hand. homicide. They felt as a matter of fairness more concerned for your practice? new. Not new law, but some new part of Society didn't exist for this fellow. I was that he have the ability to consult with A. I think they have already made the life, such as how to defraud grapefruit fascinated by him. He reminded me of a someone before he disclosed a confession of Camus novel and I told him I would bring it shift. One of our alumni Jack Riley, re drinkers. Get your experts and get someone murder. They knew they were going to cently returned to the U.S. Attorney's Of to teach you. That's what I find fascinat in for him (and that means you are going to have to prosecute him. Allen was cooperat fice to head up the Drug Task Force. He is a ing, and what makes it really enjoyable. If do it). I bought the book, The Stranger, ing on the basis that what he was saying very talented guy and has been very suc you didn't have that, it would be a lot less and he wrote me a thank you. He had no was not going to get him into further trou cessful. It was a loss when he left and I'm exciting. So, I would say no, you have to thing — no family, and he was frightening. ble. I had taken a day off and Joel Friedman sure they are glad to have him back. I know have an open mind and be willing to learn. Allen had a family structure and love and called me at my home and asked to see me there is a big emphasis on narcotics and he didn't scare me. You could communicate Q. You were chosen to represent Charles at the house. He and an agent wanted to they are looking to develop those cases so I with him. You just know when lookinginto Allen when he was flipped by the FBI or the confide in me. They trusted me since it had I (Continued on page 7) am happy with that direction. Strike Force — were they both the same Who can assess now from the private back then? point of view the economic impact? I don't A. You get a lot of argument as to who do narcotics work; I feel strongly enough "flipped" him. If you mean whoever put the WELCOME BACK about narcotics enforcement that I just proposition to him that caused him to Sen^g the Main Line for over 50 yrs^ couldn't consistently do that kind of work. change his mind, the Drug Enforcement I'll take my chances. I am fortunate enough Agency would say that they did it. The U.S. to be in a law firm where it doesn't require Attorney's office in New Jersey would say for all occasions... that I pay the rent by criminal clients they did. I can only tell you what I saw and I knocking down my door. A lot of our clients felt that the relationship he had with the •Weddings •Parties are corporations, and we are big enough to FBI office in Philadelphia was such that, have plenty of civil work that has to be without them, there would have been no •Corsages done, so I'm not in a position where I think thing. Based primarily on the fact that in those directions. It's a source of a lot of Allen had been solicited as an informant 'Funerals •l-lospitals joking, but I don't think it's very serious. I long before this had happened and the court don't think that it's going to affect the prac records show that he provided information tice that much. It's a big office, 50-some to the FBI while he was still involved in his Say it with flowers. lawyers, and plenty of people to do every underworld activities. The FBI encourages thing. agents to get informants, and one such Q. For those of us who are about to gradu agent spent a lot of time on Charlie Allen, Just everything in flowers" ate: what to look for in your particular field and developed a very warm, trusting rela and how to approach it? tionship with him. He would go to his house A. You mean in terms of how to get into and counsel him personally on matters of this particular field? the heart, for instance, when he was get Q. That, and also how to look for what is ting married. Ultimately, when he found ^ Haire coming and how to fit into it? himself accused in New Jersey of oijerating Balloon Bouquets A. That's a broad-based question because a meth lab, that moment of truth came and there are many ways to get into it. If you the relationship with the agent probably c look at the most successful practitioners, a was the key. The agent's name was Henry lot of them are former prosecutors. That's a Handy. tremendous assist in this business because Q. Could you tell the readers something 195 E. Lancaster Avenue during white collar criminal defensea lot of about Charlie Allen and why he was impor it is in the investigative stage. You are tant? I would be interested in your personal Wayne, Pa. 0^ doing the representation before indictment reaction to him in the ways that you got to and it helps to understand the investigative know him. structure. It helps to know how agents A. Allen was best described as an enforcer MU 8-5150 work and how U.S. Attorneys think be- for organized crime. Hard to say which February, 1983 • DOCKET • Page 7 STUDENT FORUM Is Death Too Good For Roger Buehl?
Generally, there are two reservations "Capital punishment is abhorrent to me 'I ni all for it, in certain cases of particu about the death penalty that immediately "The cold blooded and heinous nature of but I also recognize that there are problems lar heinous crime where the individual is the crimes committed by Roger Buehl war come to my mind: (1) the problem of mis inherent in incarcerating people for life. clearly beyond rehabilitation and the alter rant his execution." taken identity, and (2) the more probing Neither approach solves the problem for native is that he spend the rest of his life in Michael F. Barrett issue of whether our government should rights the wrong done. A special danger prison." sanction the death of a convicted felon.Spe with capital punishment is that it may ap Susan Huntington cifically, I believe that life imprisonment pear to be a simple way of dealing with without any chance of parole would be the complex problems and inconvenient peo proper punishment for Roger Buehl. ple." the judge that I now represented him and that he was not quite illiterate. You got the Andrew S. Zeldin 3L Katherine Husenan mov^ for a continuance and it was made impression that he was an ape man who public. He told me what a relief it was to be was crazy to boot. out from under this and what a pleasure it A. He's not well educated. He dropped out would be to wake up in the morning and go of school and as a result he doesn't have an Undercofler Continued out and not havea to beat somebody up or expansive vocabulary that we all have after (Continued from page 6) do something. Everything he has said since a few years here at the law school. I have not troubled by it; indeed I wouldn't have then has been one of such relief not to be a been around him enough to know that he is someone's eyes like the bank robber that he gotten that result if I couldn't call FBI part of this. not crazy, he's not an ape man and he's not was not from this world. I have dealt with agents one after the other on his behalf. Q. Is someone like that capable of gainful crazy people and Allen was together. a mental defective. He would not score well Q. It still was a better deal than anyone employment or of a productive life in so Q. Are you pleased with the way his case m vocabulary and testing and the like. I ever expected Charles Allen could make. It, ciety even in the witness protection pro don't believe anyone involved in that kind came out and, if not, what would you indeed, is an incredible deal for someone gram? change if you could? of crime would necessarily test normal. I who has led an entire life of crime. Since A. I can t say and for my own protection I didn t read him as a mad dog; he functions A. The only thing I would like to see Allen is in his 40's or 50's, we are talking don t want to know where he is or anything changed is that he was a bit more success too well in society. He is a normal husband about a half century of crime. about him. I don't want to put myself or my and father. ful as witness. I am not upset with the A. Let me make a distinction on the ques- family in .an}r ^,tou^h ^ ultimate deal-he goti tgueoo I hg ' h" Hull uf Uuui. 1 iiL ulu jjiiieu with my training as an assistant. If the not something that the government and I When he comes to the courthouse he looks agents are satisfied, then you are satisfied agreed upon. The court imposed, after well and healthy. I haven't heard of any Valentines because if you can satisfy that audience hearing a presentation, the appropriate problems. Virginia: you must have done a good job. The agents sentence. By the time that Allen came to Q. What did you learn from dealing with Steamy words of affection. were happy that he got probation. sentencing, he had testified on an incredi him? Can you describe him? — Rod I do believe that you have to get the mes ble number of occasions. He was in the A. Well, it is hard to describe him. He's Professor Levin: sage out. Look seven years after everything about 5'9" and a very rough looking charac Roses are red, violets are too, he admitted: killing Bobby Marrone, shoot ter. I found him to be very direct, and I don't It, indeed, is an incredi If we had a fee, we'd convey It to you. ing someone in Delaware, shooting some believe he ever lied to me, which is remar one in Korean wartime out on the coast, ble deal for someone kable. I felt that he was very loyal. I could — The girls In Section B burning buildings. How does seven years who has led an entire see what Jimmy Hoffa saw in him. He pro FOR SALE begin to equate with what he admitted to tected Hoffa in a fight once and got stabbed. life of crime. Reasonable rates available. Assorted doing? You really are into abstractions If he was your friend he would really sacri textbooks, notes (only slightly used). now. The fact of the matter is you have to fice. He has a lovely family. do that once in awhile. He is under witness witness protection program because there Q. Someone described him as having a Also miscellaneous articles of clo protection and is not just walking on the was clear information that there were open mental age of 10. An army report indicated thing, personal belongings, "as is" street. Charles Allen can't be seen. If he contracts on his life. Anyone who kills him furniture, and two lacrosse sticks. shows up he is dead. He is aware of it and as collects a substantial amount of money, See Ted, Docket office. a result he doesn't sleep well. like six figures. FBI agents testified that Q. There are tradeoffs. We presume that his testimony and assistance was incredi he lives comfortably, doesn't pay taxes, and ble. They all felt that a message had to be has a certain degree of freedom within the sent out to organized crime that you can get protection program to think about where out. They felt that if he was hammered, If You're he wants to live and where he wants to go. that would be the last informant they He is taken care of better than a lot of law would ever get. students who just have loan programs to How do you incarcerate the man? The Proud Enough handle. risk of being killed in prison is very high. A. Let me talk about the protection pro Everyone felt that he may have changed. gram as an abstraction. The marshalls He was very cooperative and felt that he To Identify... take you some place and they get you a new was safe from crime. name and you go to work. You are back in Q. Do you feel that way, too? Now is the time to order your the community, you pay taxes and you A. Yes, I do. You can't be a deity and figure exist. The only difference is you have one or he won't but you go back to when he was Official Villanova University Ring two contacts, and they are there when you cooperating. I had a lot of meetings with get in trouble or if there is any threat to him. He was very tense in those situations your life, and also they watch over and because he would just be going out or com check on you. It's better than going to jail. ing back from a taping. He did Angelo Bru It makes sense. My job was to represent no's Christmas party with a tape on. He Charles Allen. In the system he is entitled went into Provensano's headquarters with /, to an advocate and I got him what he a tape on so they were tough times and he Wff wanted. He didn't want to go to jail. The risked his life. 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(215) 527-4250 ord<>r your Villanova University ring Page 8 • DOCKET • February, 1983 OFF THE LINKS By Sean Abdul O'Grady Everyone has noticed the foul odors that Contrary to the impression you may get permeate the hallways. It is the unmistaka from the headline this is not going to be a ble harbinger of the school intramural bas column about the problems of kicking a ketball season. The competition so far has sausage addiction. Though that would be been hot and heavy as the SBA's parity plan has begun to show its effect. It is too riveting, wouldn't it? What is this that Abdul has been hearing early for the sports column to predict a winner. through the authority-vine about the TEAM W L Pet GB sports column not having any redeeming Joe Mama's 3 0 1.000 social qualities. We here on the sports staff Dead Dogs 2 0 1.000 feel that this column is a beacon of social Donegalers 2 0 1.000 % integrity. Why, you never see us bringing Mojos II 2 1 .667 1 up hockey brawls like the one between Self Defense 3 2 .600 1 Edmonton and Vancouver the other night. Cunning Linguists 1 1 .500 2V4 We never printed anything about Boom Model Penals 1 1 -500 2Vi Boom Blood Clot Mancini. And far would it Finest Kind 1 2 .333 3 SEA Volleyball Tournament Eadapus Rex 1 3 .250 3V4 ever be for us to mention the incident m Raines has told the Expos management between Maurice Lucas of the Phoenix Kelly's Heros 1 3 .250 As did the rest of the sporting world, the Mild Cats 1 3 .250 3% sports column mourns the passing of Paul that he was snorting the cocaine in the Suns and Lonnie Shelton of the Seattle 3% Negligents 1 3 .250 "Bear" Bryant. He had a hard nosed style, locker room between innings. Abdul only Supersonics. After all the sports column John Thompson, coach of the George wants to know how come his stolen base only brings you the finest in good, clean, with a cocked hat, that was all his own. He town Hoyas, thinks that the refs in the Big exuded the "beat me if you can" all Ameri total was almost half of what is was the wholesome (the list could go on forever) East don't protect Patrick Ewing. He previous strike-shortened year. I also sports entertainment. Our motto has can attitude that would impress even Hora claims that they allow everyone in the con tio Alger. But, his record of college game wonder whether he deserves an asterisk on always been; ALL THE NEWS THAT ference to use Patrick as a blocking sled and his baseball card? FITS WE PRINT. By the way, there is victories is not long to stand. At Grambling ladder. If the Ewing problem is not rectified there is a black head coach named Eddie Now for all you who have been waiting to more on Lonnie and Maurice to come. Thompson claims he will advise Patrick to find out just what exactly did happen Since it has always been Abdul's policy Robinson who everyone seems to forget in go professional next year. Abdul can gua the face of the Bear. Robinson is only a few between Lonnie Shelton and Maurice to take cheap shots at the easiest and most rantee that Thompson will get his wish Lucas, we will let it fly. In the Seattle- vulnerable targets, we will start with the seasons behind the Bear in total games won and the refs will start to protect. The situa and is at least twenty years younger. We Phoenix game on January 13 Lucas reached Super Bowl. How much more sap can we tion must scare the commissioners of the down behind Shelton and pulled his shorts take from "Hollywood" Joe Thiesmann? hope recognition shows up where it is due. Big East to death. Ewing is the one player University of Kansas law Professor Ray down to the point that his ample tush was Camera commercials. United Way ads. who will undoubtedly bring the conference exposed to the crowd. Shelton went after Anti-drug commercials. Children's Hospi mond Goetz is in an interesting position. He the national exposure they so desperately is going to decide whether baseball players Lucas and the ref had to intercede. After tal commercials. His own daily morning crave. If the hype as Ewing matures the game Lucas said, "In high school we radio show. TV sports broadcaster. And like Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Rod Carew matches the publicity that has followed and others who have "guaranteed con used to call that a Murphy. He exposed now he has been voted NFL MAN OF THE Ralph Sampson it will fill the conference something private of me to all those people YEAR. I fear the deluge has just begun. It is tracts" will get paid for the period during TV coffers to the hilt. Dave Gavitt, Com which the players were on strike. The play and the TV. I'm going to have to work on time to get out the hip waders. missioner of the Big East, is most assuredly my Murphy for the next game." Watch this One of the last remaining expressions of ers were represented in hearings by Mar nobody's fool and the refs know who signs vin Miller and the owners by Ray Grebey, spot for further deTAILS, sports fans. the Nixon legacy was also visible at the their paychecks. Abdul only has one bit of Super Bowl. As a matter of fact it has been the same twosome who did so well together advice for Patrick Ewing; Don't look over last time. The clubs paid the salaries under at every major televised (let me stress that) KEY NOTES: Gilbert Perault of the Buf your shoulder because EZ Ed Pinckney is protest and Professor Goetz will decide TELEVISED sporting event of the past two falo Sabres was asked to name the three about to reject your stuff again. The echo of whether their contracts allow the players years. It is the insipid phone call from the SWAT still rings pleasantly in Abdul's ears most important aspects of hockey; "fore- President. Rigginomics, huh. Judging from to keep the money. His decision, which I m from the Palestra. not surprised to say will take several check, backcheck, and paycheck," he my wallet it might be a nice change. responded . . . Tex Cobb was asked by To dispel some rumors, that was not months, will involve millions of dollars. Doesn't he have anything better to do? Johnny Carson to describe his fight with Abdul leading the riot at the Villanova In Wisconsin a 17-year-old high school Abdul has to wonder what the networks heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, "It train station on the evening of the George student who quit his football team last year would do if Tip O'Niell called and seemed as though we were playing a town game at the Palestra. It seems that has filed a $125,000 libel suit after he found demanded equal time. sophisticated game of tag and I was IT for SEPTA had forgotten to run the trains that his picture in a weekly newspaper with the In a year when football showed the fans the last twenty-five minutes ... NBC were to take the students to the game. As caption "quitter." The newspaper pub exactly how it felt about them one source sportscaster Bob Trumpy on Miami safety an Amtrak train came around the bend a lished a team picture and instead of putting has stood up and told football exactly what few students tried to get in the way to stop , ! him "niiittpr liYlf "The abuse he put his it thinks of football's antics. The Sporting bodyay throughtnrough the rest of the week made termed ihe stucfents it it did any^ "^'6epu6Mft^'^^^a^^[or?test!^ger saying, "We don't do book reviews after most people wonder how he ever played on thing, it picked up speed. The angry stu Imes, said that he was born and raised in reading half the chapters." Even though it Sundays. He would come in, and you could dents pelted the passing coaches with Wales and that he mistakenly thought that is a standard in excess of my own, TSN literally take blood from his eyes and give it rocks. Sometime after that a SEPTA train the word "quitter" refered to a postion on must be admired. Abdul has opened a place to somebody else." . . . Athletes In Action did manage to find its way by and brought an American football team. Abdul has to in his heart of hearts for them. Besides, basketball team has disbanded due to lack the students downtown for free. wonder how they are going to make that fit they are the only publication to have of support from their parent agency The This year CBS only contracted to show under the New York Times v Sullivan enough sense to rank the Villanova Wild Campus Crusade for Christ. . . Drew Pear two NBA games during the entire season. definition of malice. cats number five in the country. (Excuse son on the retirement of Dick Vermiel, This is a sad statement on the things that More legal problems in sports are arising this segue) "The person in Philadelphia who should be happen when you over-expand your in Montreal where the fleet footed base Here at VLS our law school basketball most upset is Louie Giamona. He only had playoffs. The NFL and Major League Base stealer Tim Raines has admitted to a team has gotten off to another good start in that job because Vermiel was his Uncle." ball should take it to heart. Happily, CBS cocaine addiction problem. Along with the Philadelphia Professional School Drew couldn't have been more right .. . did show an extra game during the NFL countless others Raines is now seeking League. Their record is 3-0 on the strength strike. Every team in the NBA has one rehabilitation through a clinic and therapy. of big wins over Penn Dental School and express desire; that the Washington Philadelphia College of Medicine. The scor Bullets do not make the playoffs. After a ing burden has been well distributed in the three, five or seven game series the Bullets ON THE DOCKET games. That factor is usually the first three would grind any opposing team's guards sign of a well balanced team with good dis into hamburger. No team has the depth to Tuesday, February 15 cipline. Hopefully this will be the year that withstand the Beef Brother's pick assault. 3:00 p.m. — Draft Legislation, Rm. 29 they bring home the bacon in the form of a Even if you win the series with the Bullets Thursday, February 17 city professional league championship. you are going to be hesitating every time 7:00 p.m. — Finals in Interviewing and Counseling Competition There is a very large and deep squad this you turn the corner or throw on a full court Tuesday, Metrch 8 year as Joe Betley and Joe Oterlise have press. 7:00 p.m. — Reimel Moot Court semi-finals been joined by a promising crew of lis. This coming year there will be some Tuesday, March 15 Mike Curly credits the influx to the exten thing new in professional baseball. The 3:00 p.m. — Faculty Meeting sive recruiting program, but the sports AAA minor leagues are going to get Friday, March 18 staff has found out the real dope. Our infor together in Louisville (where they broke all School Show mant prefers to be identified only as Joe minor league attendence records last year) Saturday, March 19 Mama. He has told Abdul about the real and play a championship tournament. Law Review Symposium reasons why he came to Villanova. In a Also, as one of his last official acts, Bowie Tuesday, March 22 soon to be published expose entitled An Kuhn has allowed the commissioner of Jap 7:00 p.m. — Symposium — The Press & the Law, Rm. 29 Vl^ Abdul Unofficial History of B'ball anese baseball to negotiate with next year's Wednesday, April 6 will detail the sex drugs, money and cars World Series champion for a game, or ser 4:00 p.m. — Law Day — City Hall ' ; .. . • that brought this Bronxonian to the big V. ies of games that would truly be the World Saturday, April 9 Series. And I don't want to hear anything 3:00 p.m. — Reimel Moot Court finals from you fans of Cuban baseball. Abdul has Friday, April 15 got dem mid-winter, when's training camp 5:00 p.m.and 6:00 p.m. — Reception and Giannella Lecture gonna start, lack-o-baseball blues agin, 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. — Law Review reception and dinner mama. 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